The Policy of England in Relation to India and the East; Or, Alexandria, Ispahan, Herat

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Sampson, Low, 1877 - 107 sivua
 

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Sivu 18 - we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our ' duty ; if, on the contrary, we do not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object ; be well assured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds.
Sivu 81 - ... in the world. The parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities : one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferiour legislatures, and guides, and controls them all vvidiout annihilating any.
Sivu 1 - I think I can trace all the calamities of this country to the single source of our not having had steadily before our eyes a general, comprehensive, well-connected, and wellproportioned view of the whole of our dominions, and a just sense of their true bearings and relations.
Sivu xiii - For th' other, as great clerks have done. He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts; Where Entity and Quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly; Where truth in person does appear, Like words congeal'd in northern air.
Sivu 48 - Russia in the Caucasus, marks the old northern frontier of Persia, and eventually joins the Hindoo Koosh in Afghanistan. At the base of these mountains on the shores of the Caspian lie the rich provinces of Ghilan and Mazanderan utterly neglected, but perhaps the most fertile belt of country in the world. The northern mountain slopes are fringed with valuable forests of teak, oak, walnut, and box, while coal and iron are found on the southern plateau. But this is the only part of Persia thus enriched...
Sivu 48 - Eussian lake. Not only was Persia prohibited from keeping vessels of war on the Caspian, but she actually was not permitted to trade from her own shores under her own flag. Consequently, the harbours of Enzelli and Ashourada, which would have been so important for this nation's northern maritime trade, were rendered useless...
Sivu 1 - ... to further advance, and as a halting-place where we can rest and gather fresh strength. If in the time of Paul I. an overland expedition to India was considered feasible, it is certainly much more so at the present time, when we have shortened the interval by such an immense stretch of country. " Asia will not of course ever form the avowed object of dispute between England and Russia, but in the event of a war produced by European complications, we shall clearly be obliged in our own interests...
Sivu 1 - Asian possessions serve only as an ttape on the road to further advance, and as a halting-place where we can rest and gather fresh strength. If in the time of Paul I. an overland expedition to India was considered feasible, it is certainly much more so at the present time...
Sivu 59 - ... action. In England successive Governments may hold different views, or, even if en accorde, it is not always that the opinions of the Foreign and of the India Office may be identical. But in Russia a traditional policy has been upheld, and that policy dates back to Peter the Great; and we know that he aimed at curbing English power in the East by eventually absorbing Persia and establishing Russian authority at Herat and upon the Persian Gulf, thus getting that outlet to the sea which Nature...
Sivu 75 - lifted up to their mouths but with a scanty supply " of provision. My Lords, these acts of unparalleled " cruelty began with the poor ryots; but if they " began there, there they did not stop. The heads of " the villages, the leading yeomen of the country, " respectable for their virtues, respectable for their " age, were tied together, two and two, the...

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